Welcome!
Congratulations to all of you who have chosen to participate in this program and who are on your way to developing an understanding of the Web 2.0 tools readily available in today’s society. Each week we will place a new post accessible through the tab on the top of the page labelled ‘further instructions‘, which will give a little run down of the week’s activity. We will also send out an email, with explanations, encouragement and sites of interest. Each week will have plenty of extra resources and sites to explore if you have the time or inclination.
On the side of the pages you will find some other links, a ‘Site of the week‘ link that will have a new interesting website to explore each week, the tracking log, where you can monitor your progress during the program, and the Participants’ Blogs page, where you can find a list of the blogs being created by staff at your library. Here you can click on each one, to see what your colleagues have been up to. Keep tuned to this area, as it is a good place to be inspired and entertained!
Please feel free to contact us for help at any time at: learning@yprl.vic.gov.au
To begin the program, click on the underlined links below the activity heading to take you to the activities page. There, you will need to follow the steps to complete the week’s ‘thing’. Please be patient when activating each podcast. Some take up to 30 seconds to begin. There may also be some buffering interference.
With each exercise we are aware there may be access issues for many of you. Please be aware that we have tried to include alternative resources for you to explore where access has been identified as a possible problem.
EQUIPMENT NEEDED
Computer with Internet access
Sound card to listen to pod casts
Headphones if you plan to complete the program in a public area.
Quicktime or Windows Media Player for Videos
Good luck!
Introduction-Listen to audio here
Week 1: About Learning 2.0 and Starting a blog
1. Read about the original 23 Things program
2. Create your own blog and write something
3. Send us the link to your blog
4. Comment on each others’ blogs
Week 2: Flickr and photo sharing
5. Create a flickr account and post a photo
Week 3: Play week
6. Play with an Image generator
7. Play with LibraryThing
Week 4: RSS feeds and Feedreaders
8. Install a feed reader
9. Subscribe to some library related blogs
Week 5: Get social
10. Explore MySpace
11. Explore Facebook
Week 6: Google tools
12. Play with Google Docs & Spreadsheets
13. Play with Google Maps
14. Play with Google Book Search
Week 7: iGoogle home page
15. Create your own iGoogle home page
Week 8: Social bookmarking and Library 2.0
16. Organise yourself with del.icio.us
17. Read about the Library 2.0 movement
Week 9: Wikis and Rollyo
18. Read about and explore the world of wikis
19. Rollyo
School Holidays- Relax
Week 10: Videos and Podcasts
20. Find and listen to a Podcast or two.
21. Watch YouTube videos people have made about libraries. TeacherTube has been used for the majority of this exercise.
Week 11: Second Life
22. Read about Second Life and how libraries are using it.
Week 12: Ebooks and Audiobooks
Conclusion
**Give feedback about the programme**
Please feel free to write a final post to summarise your thoughts about the program, what you liked, disliked, things you may use again, areas for improvement.
Thank you
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